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NYC Student’s ICE Detention Underscores Nationwide Court Arrest Campaign

Advocates warn this reflects a Trump administration push to fast-track interior deportations through court arrests.

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Officials bundle a man into an umarked van out San Francisco's immigration court on Tuesday morning, May 27, 2025.
The Edward J. Schwartz Federal building sits along Front Street in San Diego, California, on January 17, 2010.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents transfer an immigrant into the ICE Metropolitan Detention Center in Los Angeles, after an early morning raid, Monday, June 6, 2022.

Overview

  • Dylan, a 20-year-old Venezuelan asylum seeker enrolled in a Bronx public high school, was arrested by ICE outside 26 Federal Plaza after an immigration judge dismissed his deportation case on May 21.
  • The detention is part of a nationwide ICE operation that has attorneys ask judges to dismiss migrants’ cases before agents in plainclothes re-arrest detainees under expedited removal rules.
  • Mayor Eric Adams said the arrest falls under federal jurisdiction, while Schools Chancellor Melissa Aviles-Ramos reaffirmed that New York City public schools will remain safe havens for immigrant students.
  • Immigrant advocates and legal groups caution that ICE’s courthouse enforcement is intimidating asylum seekers, deterring them from attending hearings and undermining their due process rights.
  • This week, advocates reported similar ICE arrests at immigration courts in San Francisco and Boston, intensifying calls for safeguards against the expanded expedited removal tactic.